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The oligarch, whose business empire spans from mining to media, heads the International Fencing Federation and is a minority shareholder in the Arsenal football club in the English Premier League.
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The oligarchs of the Putin era, on the other hand, are themselves assets of the state, administering business fiefdoms that also happen to pay handsomely.
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Sberbank and VEB, Gorkov's two banks, have been critical to the Russian economy, but have also engaged in high-profile bailouts of Russian companies, including those owned by favored oligarchs.
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Because Dan Gilbert has been cornered into spending into a luxury-tax stratosphere previously reserved only for the irrationality of a Russian oligarch.
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Mr. Manafort has denied that his work for the oligarch was aimed at aiding the Russian government.
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Malta Files reporting has also exposed offshoring schemes of the Italian mafia, a Russian billionaire’s payday loan empire, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, soccer stars, and yacht-owning European oligarchs, among others.
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A not inconsiderable point: A disproportionate number of the oligarchs are Jewish.
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Origin and Etymology of oligarch
Greek oligarchēs, from olig- + -archēs -arch
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playDefinition of oligarch for English Language Learners
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: a person who belongs to a small group of people who govern or control a country, business, etc.
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